government contract go the the lowest bidder

Sorta

who then fuck up and balloon costs or straight up lied

of course, the state ensures who can bid the lowest for it by paying them through the backdoor

and yes, leaving it open for ex-post-facto increases

when the _sunk cost fallacy_ becomes an effective tool for marketing the renegotiation of these contracts.

That's how we get the F35

the most useless, and most expensive, airplane ever built.

At least the airplanes at RedBull Flugtag don't cost the taxpayer more than a trillion dollars, and somebody gets some joy from them.

I’m just saying, I was interested in analyzing trump’s 30 minute UN speech.

Sometime tomorrow?

If you have a transcript, put it up on google docs or whatever and see if we can gather some annotations

ironically all the time spent on the f35 is making it also the only option

That’s a good idea

@Grenade123 that's not true either

@Grenade123 it's _still_ not a true sunk cost

well i mean you can buy from russia or china

They don't need this class of aircraft

they never did

which "class"

They can get 100% of the desired capabilities with retrofits

They posted it on WH gov website

it comes in 3 flavors

"multi-role design"

I’m a bit busy bye

master of none: military airplane edition

ciao @R9b1t

well thats the point, retrofitting old airframes which are outdated. and the cost per unit has been coming down on the f35 where that is starting to not make as much sense as it used to

It's like they got neapolitan

and added more vanilla to all three

now you have "chocolate vanilla, WAAAY TOO VANILLA, and strawberry vanilla"

The big issue with the F35 is outstanding orders

and the corresponding agreements to purchase the parts from all sorts of NATO folks

has there been any military design contract that hasn't been an utter trainwreck?

yes

outside of legit full on war

thousands

many of them have gone off reasonably well

I mean, sure, almost anything in procurement can go wrong

but this is a new kind of clusterfuck

really?seems like they always turn into a clusterfuck